That's how all the best love stories begin, so of course that is how I will begin my story today.
Once upon a time there was a girl who worked at a coffee shop. One day several years ago a boy walked into the coffee shop to use the free wifi and drink some espresso. After several visits to the coffee shop the girl and the boy struck up some casual conversation. She learned that he worked for the local newspaper and that they had a mutual love for travel. She soon found that she was looking forward to his visits to the coffee shop. One day the two shared stories about some upcoming trips they each had. Hers to the Baltic sea for a family vacation, his to Europe for a whirlwind two month adventure.
What the girl didn't know was that the boy had quit his job in her small town and when he returned from his adventure, he moved two towns away.
More than a year went by, life moved along.
Until Wednesday December 14, 2011 in that very same coffee shop the girl happened to be working an unusual night shift closing up.
At about half-past-five the boy walked back into the coffee shop. (He was passing time before he was to meet at a friend's house for a fried chicken dinner.) The girl greeted him and after he had ordered a bottle of grape soda they began remembering each other. They chatted for a bit before the boy took a seat near the window.
When closing time grew near, the boy returned to the cash register to buy a few more grape sodas for the road. The girl remarked, "Those things will turn you purple." Then the boy asked her if she wanted to get dinner sometime, she replied yes and the boy wrote down his number on a yellow sticky-note.
The next day the girl called him from the back of the coffee shop and they made plans for dinner at Bahn Thai on Friday night.
The boy and the girl have been happily together ever since, traveling the world together.
On March 1, 2014 the girl walked into the coffee shop where she once worked to meet her sister-in-law for coffee before getting a pedicure. When she opened the door she saw her sister-in-law at the end of the counter taking her photo. When the girl looked to her left she saw the boy dressed to the nines. He walked up to the girl, took her hands and told her how much better his life had been since he had walked into the coffee shop that day in December. He told her how much he loved her and got down on his knee and asked her to be his wife.
That's the short version of our love story.
Now what you've all been waiting for.... photos of the proposal AND the ring!
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